Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3 vs RX Vega 5

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking651not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency21.27no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameVegaWeston
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores320384
Core clock speedno data730 MHz
Boost clock speed1400 MHz1021 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data24.50
Floating-point processing powerno data0.7841 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data24

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data14.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.5 (6.0)
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 18 April 2017
Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 50 Watt

RX Vega 5 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 5 and Radeon 530 Mobile DDR3. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 5
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